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I want to have my cake and eat it too.

When you have exactly what you want in terms of a relationship with one person. Yet you find yourself wanting that little extra something from another.

Just like wanting to be with two people.
Tiger Woods response to the media after they found out about all of his affairs, "To the public I'm sorry, but you know I, just like most men, I want to have my cake and eat it too."
by The Cake. July 20, 2011
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You can’t have it both ways, you can’t have your neccesity and your desire. Needs & wants.
Kevin has a wife but still wants to have relations with his friend Samantha...

You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
by lachichu April 16, 2019
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Have their cake and eat it to

1. when someone owns something but is still seeking more of it to benefit from it, especially from another party

2. when someone such as a corporation wants to take more than it's fair share.
First the record labels shut down Napster aned Grokster. Now t hey want to have their cake and eat it to by proposing a tax to destroy internet radio.
by grizmeister May 18, 2010
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Had my cake and ate it too

The act of cumming inside of your lady and then proceeding to give her oral sex.
Bill: Can I have the room for sex?
Jon: Sure! Don't worry, I already had my cake and ate it too.
by John Motherfucking Hopkins September 29, 2010
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Friends with benifits, but one of them wants the commitment and the other doesn't.

It means that like for a gurl, she likes the guy, but won't commit to him, but at the same time doesn't want him to leave. Same defintion for a guy as well.
This quote is in the Andre Nickatina song, Conversations of the Devil.

.."Meanin That I Like To Have My Cake And Eat It Too....She Said " Do You Want A Drink Nicky Baby" Yeah!... " Do You Want Me To Get It For You Baby?"
by M-Dezzy June 14, 2006
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You can't have your cake and eat it too

something that is bittersweet.
getting a good half and a bad half to something.
John: So Tom did u get that English class you wanted?

Tom: Yea man. I love it. However the teacher is a total bitch!

John: Yea, well you can't have your cake and eat it too.
by sergio0691 November 8, 2006
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You can't have your cake and eat it too

An expression basically meaning that you can only have it so good, and you can't have it all.

An good example is if a situation is bittersweet.
Sara was sad that the guy whom had gotten very close to her in the past 3 years which she held a secret fondness for developed an interest in her best friend, Clare. In conversation with Clare, Sara explained the situation, to which Clare responded.

"You can't have your cake and eat it too."
by ThatOneHuman December 28, 2005
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